Apparatus for providing digital contents and method thereof
AssigneeElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
InventorsJinsuk Ma, Sunja Kim, Hosang Ham, Chaekyu Kim
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an apparatus for providing digital contents that acquires image data by photographing a user terminal intending to receive digital contents and discriminates a type of user terminal through the acquired image data. The present invention can simply and conveniently perform the process of discriminating a user terminal that is cumbersomely and complexly performed in the apparatus for providing contents according to the related art by the user that is not familiar with the use of the IT devices.
Claims13
An apparatus for providing digital contents, comprising:
- a photographing unit that photographs a user terminal to acquire image data;
- an image processor that digitalizes the image data acquired by the photographing unit and converts the digitalized image data into a predetermined format;
- an image comparator that compares the converted image data with image data of various terminals pre-stored in the predetermined format and extracts identification information of a target terminal that is determined to be the same or similar;
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- a terminal discriminator that queries a user whether the target terminal determined to be the same or similar in the image comparator matches the user terminal based on the identification information of the target terminal and receives user selection accordingly to finally discriminate a type of the user terminal.
A method of discriminating a user terminal, comprising:
- photographing a user terminal to acquire image data;
- digitalizing the image data and converting the digitalized image data into a predetermined format;
- comparing the converted image data with image data of various terminals pre-stored in the predetermined format and extracting identification information of a target terminal that is determined to be the same or similar;
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- querying a user whether the target terminal determined to be the same or similar matches the user terminal based on the identification information of the target terminal and receiving user selection accordingly to finally discriminate a type of the user terminal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.